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Things to do in Texarkana
April 24-30, 2017 

• Texarkana Dragon Boat Festival. Saturday, April 29 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wonderful community event that’s free for the whole family. Groups and family teams may register to participate. Enjoy the races, food and craft vendors, sponsor booths, and more. Benefitting HandsOnTexarkana. Bringle Lake Park. 
  
  
  
• Community Yard Sale. Saturday, April 29 | 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Spring Lake Park. UPDATE: Unable to accept electronics for recycling. Call now to reserve a space! While you’re at the park, check out the new playground equipment!
  
  
• Dr. Jon Taylor and Stark Magic in a High-Energy Comedy and Entertainment show. Saturday, April 29 | BrightStar Theater. Dr. Jon motivates the audience with hypnosis, showing how to harness the power of the mind! The Stark Magic show is entertainment with a comedic twist, for audiences of all ages, with all the spectacle and excitement of the big top, If seeing is believing, then you will not want to miss this show! 
  
  
• Seventh Annual UofA Cossatot Collegiate Rodeo. Thursday-Saturday, April 27-29. Bring the kids! Events will begin at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Four States Fair Entertainment Center. 
  
  
  
• Pollyanna!  Thursday, April 27-Sunday, April 30 | Multiple Showtimes. Wonderfully staged story of the optimistic orphan whose name has become synonymous with the positive attitude of her “Glad Game:” finding something to be glad about in every situation, no matter how bleak it may be, including life with her stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly. Performed by Silvermoon Children’s Theatre. Let this be the show you discover SCT. 
  
  
• Wine Tasting. Wednesday, April 26. Verona Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar offers wine tastings on Wednesday nights. Soak up the ambiance and taste 5 wines for $15. 
  
  
• ACT FAST ... Texarkana Symphony Orchestra chamber music concert at A&M-Texarkana. Monday, April 24 | 7 p.m. In the University Center on campus. FREE to public. The concert will feature two trios with the first performing performing Eric Ewazen’s 1990 Trio for Trumpet, Violin and Piano and the second performing Horn Trio in E-flat Major by 19th century composer Johannes Brahms.
  
  
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  Bladesmithing School. April 24-28. Sign up to learn Knife Making through Texarkana College’s Bill Moran School of Bladesmithing. Produce knives of integral construction, learning all phases of knife making from basic forging to waxing the blade when finished.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

CONGRATULATIONS TO PRISSY HICKERSON! 

LT Class of 1983

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Things to do in Texarkana
April 17-23, 2017 

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TC President James Henry Russell has been a leading force for the past three years in supporting Leadership Texarkana’s local presentation of the Leadercast program to benefit Texarkana’s leaders, generously offering the resources of Texarkana College.  

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Things to do in Texarkana April 3-9, 2017 

• Songwriters on the Edge of Texas Concert featuring Texas country music benefiting the children of CASA. April 9 from 6-9:30PM at Northridge Country Club. 
  
  
  
  
• Opening Night of BrightStar Theater! Southern Nights Tribute Show in style of Glen Campbell. Special Guests Deanie Horn Deal, Henry Mathews, Charlie Lowe, Dee Bell, and Elvis (Johnny Lovett). April 8. 
  
  
• Party with Picassos. 18th Annual Women for the Arts auction like no other, featuring works by “celebrity” bankers, lawyers, doctors, dentists, educators, musicians, entrepreneurs, business leaders. Bigger than Ever! Silent Auction. Raffle with fabulous prizes! April 8, 7PM. Texarkana Convention Center. Benefiting TRAHC’s ArtsSmart programs for children. 
  
  
  
• Texarkana’s Largest Indoor Garage Sale. Great finds! Don’t miss it! April 8, 7AM–1PM. Four States Entertainment Center 
  
  While you’re at the fairgrounds:
  
  Miller-Bowie Quilt Show at the Four States Barbara Gleboff Fine Arts Building and Idalou Ames Home Arts. April 7-8. $5/$4 
  
  
• TMS Kid Fun on Sat, April 8:
  
  
  • 3rd Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Ace of Clubs House. 11AM-1PM. FREE. Bring a basket! 
    
    
  • Flower Power Arts & Crafts Day. Discovery Place Children’s Museum. 12–2 PM. 
    
    
    
    
• 23rd Annual Spelling Bee, Silent Auction & Draw Down. Fri, April 7 from 6–9 PM. Silvermoon on Broad. Drawdown tickets (870) 774-0188. 
  
  
• NEW LifeSTYLE seminars and courses–for those seeking to get the most out of life in Eagle Hall/University Center on A&M-Texarkana campus:
  
  
  • “Living Your Legend: Finding and Doing Work that Actually Excites and Pleases You” featuring Dr. Eric N. Best. Tues, April 4, 6-8PM.
    
    
  • Seminar on the Bowie County 4-H Grows and Master and Junior Master Gardener programs on Thur, April 6, 6-8PM Extended Education and Community Development.
    
    
Learn more at [email protected].

• PGHS Art Show. Gallery Opening and awards for an award-winning program. Tues, April 4. 

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Skylar Rogers
Senior Vice President
Reynolds Realty Management

Skylar Rogers is native son of Texarkana, USA. Skylar is a licensed commercial real estate agent and Sr. Vice President at Reynolds Realty Management Inc. with whom he has been employed five-plus years.

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"I have learned that each one of us must take responsibility for the well-being of every person in our community  We must include even those who are not just like us. Leadership is about one life influencing another. I agree with Margaret Mead who said, 'Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.'"

Mary O'Farrell, life long resident of Texarkana, USA, charges any room in which she walks in with her non-stop energy.  Multiple organizations over the years have tapped that energy.  She is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Texarkana, Inc.  She was named Outstanding Sustainer of that same organization in 2014.  Mary made history by becoming the first female Rotarian in Texarkana when she joined Wilbur Smith Rotary Club (previously named Downtown Rotary Club).  She was later honored as a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.  The list of organizations continues:  Texarkana Homeless Coalition, UCRC United Community Resource Council, TACOAD Texarkana Area Coalition Organization Active in Disaster, Hands On Texarkana Board, Leadership Texarkana Board Member and Texarkana Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.  She is an active lifetime member of First United Methodist Church and she retired from as an administrator from Texarkana Texas Independent School District in 2000.  Mary is the proud grand parent of six. 

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